Studies in African American History and Culture

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1. African American Slavery and Disability

   Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

   By Dea Boster

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels

   By Auli Ek

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States, and in so doing, compellingly engages popular culture in order to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942

   By Claudrena N. Harold

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Courting Communities

   Black Female Nationalism and "Syncre-Nationalism" in the Nineteenth Century

   By Kathy Glass

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Contesting the Terrain of the Ivory Tower

   Spiritual Leadership of African American Women in the Academy

   By Rochelle Garner

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This study examines the leadership of three African-American women administrators in higher education, and how they have used their spirituality as a lens to lead in the academy. The central questions in this case study include: How do African-American women make meaning of their spiritual selves...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860

   By Jeffrey C. Stone

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This dissertation examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, and in particular, the issue of master-slave relationships and how they affected education (broadly defined as the transmission of Southern culture). Although Missouri had one of the lowest...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Post-Soul Black Cinema

   Discontinuities, Innovations and Breakpoints, 1970-1995

   By William R. Grant

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This work examines and analyzes how the cinematic image of African Americans became a fixed image with strict rules of depiction both written and unwritten. And, how those very limited and under-informed images would not and could not be challenged or transformed until the power relations in the...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers

   By Hilton Kelly

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students,...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s

    Blackness and Genre

    By Novotny Lawrence

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge